Decimal Addresses for Phonetic Symbols in Unicode

To use Unicode on the Net, you need three things:

a font that supports Unicode (i.e. has sixteen bit addresses with the
correct glyphs at those addresses) installed on the user's machine. A non-free, relatively small and widely installed TrueType font that supports the IPA extensions (decimal
#s 592-680)is lucida sans unicode (aka lsansuni.ttf); Arial Unicode MS is a very large (22 Mb) font usually shipped with MS Office and iMac OS X v10.5 or later;if you prefer a serif font, try George Williams'
Caslon. For much more information, see Alan Woods'
Unicode Resources

.

The browser needs to be set to assign a supporting font (like lsansuni) to the Unicode UTF-8 encoding (Firefox: Preferences>Content >Fonts &Colors>Advanced>Default Character Encoding; MSIE you may have to tweak a little.)

To write Unicode, you need an editor that can display character maps beyond decimal #255.
MSWord 97 and above can do this with Insert-->Symbol but is otherwise fairly
wayward in inserting the META tag. The best (and free) editor for this on the
Windows platform is the new Unipad from Sharmahd Computing in Hannover.
Unipad has its own font(s)and can do conversions among several encodings.
Highly recommended for Windows. For Linux, the choice is Yudit. TrueType fonts
can now be used in X Window, so lucida sans unicode can be used in Linux as
well.

The symbols below, which are most of the non-ascii symbols useful for
standard phonetic transcription of English, are drawn from several regions of
the Unicode chart: from Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A and B, IPA
Extensions, Combining Diacritical Mark, and Greek (for the theta).

If you want the file to trigger Unicode UTF-8 decoding in the browser, you
must preface this META tag: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
as used at the top
of this page. Otherwise the browser may not recognise that you intend the UTF-8
decoding to be used, not Western (or whatever).

If your machine has lucida sans unicode ior another supporting font on it, and you have chosen it for the Unicode encoding, the cells in the table should
all be full with the correct glyphs.

For further discussion, reaching far beyond English, see John Wells' IPA-Unicode page.

Consonant symbols

ð

#240

voiced interdental fricative

ɾ

#638

alveolar flap

ɫ

#619

velarized l

ŋ

#331

velar nasal

θ

#952

voiceless interdental fricative

ʍ

#653

voiceless w

ʔ

#660

glottal stop

Diacritics

̩

#809

syllabic stroke

̃

#771

nasalized

̪

#810

dentalized

̥

#805

devoiced (broken in font)

ʰ

#688

aspirated

ʷ

#695

labialized

̚

#771

checked release

ː

#720

lengthened

Palatal Fricatives

ʃ

#643

voiceless palatal fricative

š

#353

ʧ

#679

voiceless palatal affricate

č

#269

ʒ

#658

voiced palatal fricative

ž

#382

ʤ

#676

voiced palatal affricate

ǰ

#496

Vowels

ɑ

#593

low back

æ

#230

low front

ə

#601

schwa

з:

#1079

"stressed schwa" (RP:HEARD)

ɛ

#603

mid front lax

ɪ

#618

high front lax

ɔ

#596

mid back lax

ʊ

#650

high back lax

ʌ

#652

central low

You may find it handy to use Martin Weisser's Transcription Tool, which gives you the code to copy and paste into a web page or word processor. Or perhaps you are ready to move up to Richard Ishida's suite of tools for the entire IPA, starting with ipa character picker